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ExxonMobil Canada paid $40,000 fine for incident that nearly cost a man his life

August 14, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

ExxonMobil Canada has paid a fine of $40,000 for failing to comply with an offshore regulation that nearly cost a man his life. The fine was issued July 12 by the Canada Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) after a lengthy investigation into a reported incident last November 5, 2018. On that day, 225 pounds...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), ExxonMobil, Noble Regina Allen, offshore incident

Oil industry-friendly politician objects to proposed strengthened environmental assessment rules

April 25, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

A federal bill to change the way environmental assessments of large projects are handled met with strong and mixed reaction at a Senate Committee hearing held in Halifax yesterday. Environmentalists like the fact assessments of new projects must include “climate change” as one factor. “The Bill is not perfect but it is a balanced and...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrea Paul, Bill C-69, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), Ches Crosbie, climate change, Dennis Patterson, Deputy Energy Minister Simon D’Entremont, East Coast Environmental Law, EcoJustice, Ecology Action Centre, Gretchen Fitzgerald, Impact Assessment Agency, Karen Hutt, Mark Butler, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Sarah MacDonald, Yuen Pao Woo

Feds invest in Sable Island cleanup

Morning File, Tuesday, February 12, 2019

February 12, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. Quadriga Halifax Examiner contributor Andrew D. Wright took a deep dive into the corporate history of the Quadriga cryptocurrency exchange, and found much of it was based on false promises and lies. Click here to read “Quadriga’s Magic Ride: A journey into a labyrinth of money and lies.” This article is for subscribers. Click […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adsum for Women and Children, Alexander Quon, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Christine Saulnier, Citadel Hill clock, Co-operators Insurance, Community Council Sector of Nova Scotia, Corey Beals, David Buffett, Halifax fire department, Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency, Halifax Taxi Association, Hara Associates, Jean Laroche, Jeffrey Lansing, Karen Foster, LaHave River ferry, living wage, Mairin Prentiss, Old Town Clock, QuadrigaCX, Sable Island, Sheri Lecker, Sherri Borden Colley, taxi industry, taxi licences, The Offshore Alliance, Vehicle for Hire Licensing Program Review, Walid Ali, Zane Woodford

Silver Sands: the best Halifax-area beach we ever destroyed

Morning File, Monday, June 25, 2018

June 25, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. BP spill On Friday, BP reported a small spill of synthetic lubricating mud at its West Aquarius drill site on the Scotia Shelf drill site. The government regulator has ordered drilling suspended until an investigation is complete. News of the spill is posted to the incident page of the Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: BP spill, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), Cow Bay Beach, Emma Smith, Glitter Bean Café, Katy Parsons, Lorelei Carey, Magen Lilli Hudak, Maritime Bus, Media & the Law webcast, MLA Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Nick Ritcey, pedestrian struck Rocky lake Drive, Rainbow haven bus, Rissers Beach bus, Scotia Shelf drill site, Silver Sands Beach, Smiling Goat Café, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

Nova Scotia’s looming oil-drilling disaster

Canadian regulators have failed to reduce the likelihood of a Deepwater Horizon-like blowout at BP's deep-sea well on the Scotian Slope, and the company plans to respond to a blowout with an oil dispersant that could compound the catastrophe.

May 18, 2018 By Linda Pannozzo 6 Comments

When BP named its exploratory well in the Mississippi Canyon the Macondo Prospect after the doomed fictional town of Macondo from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, that alone should have raised alarm bells. The story of seven generations of the Buendía family are set in the Colombian town, which is beset by […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Access to Information request, Aspy D-11, Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), Ben Fieldhouse, Bill C-22, BP, Brian Robinson, Bruce Hollebone, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), capelin, capping stack, Cecilia Lougheed, Centre for Catastrophic Risk Management, Centre for Offshore Oil, chemical dispersants, Chris Kennedy, Clean Ocean Action Committee, Corexit 9500A, Corexit 9580A, Cory Dubetz, Craig Purchase, Deepwater Horizon, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Don Aurand, Ecosystem Management & Associates, Elsevier, Environment and Climate Change (ECCC), Environmental Impact Statement, Gas and Energy Research (COOGER), Gina Coelho, HDR Inc., James Clark, John Davis, Jonathan Davis, Judith LeBlanc, Linda Pannozzo, Macondo Prospect, Marc Bernier, Marc-Etienne Lesieur, marine rotifer, Mike Stoneman, Minister Catherine McKenna, Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Nalco Environmental Solutions, National Contaminants Advisory Group (NCAG), oil spill, Patrice Simon, Robert Bea, Roberto Rico-Martinez, Sarah Gilbert, Scotian Slope, Shell Canada, Sponson Group, Stantec, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, Thomas King, Tony Hayward

BP is about to start a deep-water well off Nova Scotia; what could possibly go wrong?

Morning File, Monday, April 9, 2018

April 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Weather There was weather. 2. The new convention centre is already a financial disaster for the city I reported Friday afternoon: The city expected to have a $1.8 million deficit on its Halifax Convention Centre account this year, but that figure has nearly doubled — to $3.5 million. And a revised analysis of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: BP drilling on Scotian Shelf, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), Halifax Convention Centre budget shortfalls, Judge Lenehan and cameras in courtrooms, Law Amendments, North Star Rowing Club history, Nova Centre deficit, Richard Starr, Rural high-speed internet

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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